Campaigns Archives - Page 5 of 230

22Jun

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Campaigns, Human Rights, USA

Sanders Calls on Democrats to Embrace 8-Point Plan to End Police Brutality, Protect Communities

"We have got to act boldly to eradicate systemic racism and police violence. I am calling for sweeping policy reforms to protect people—particularly communities of color—who have suffered violence for far too long." by: Jake Johnson, People hold banners during a protest over the death killing of George Floyd on June 2, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) As the nationwide uprising catalyzed by the police killing of George Floyd continues to bring hundreds of thousands of Americans into city streets around the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders is urging the Democratic leadership to embrace a slate of specific policy proposals aimed at mitigating the intertwined crises of systemic racism and unaccountable brutality by law enforcement. "I am cal...

Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant

22Jun

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Campaigns, United Kingdom

Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant

As more and more manufacturing jobs are being scrapped, workers are the victims of the downward spiral of capitalist crisis. Proletarian writers Having taken state bailout funds to ‘save’ 4,000 jobs, Rolls Royce has now laid off 3,375 workers in Britain. Having secured government cash to put over 4,000 of its British employees on furlough, Rolls Royce is now planning to go ahead anyway and dump 3,375 of its workforce in east Derbyshire and Renfrewshire, dealing a further sickening blow to what little remains of the manufacturing life of Derby. This is part of a worldwide contraction, with Rolls Royce slashing 9,000 of its global workforce of 52,000. The company exclusively blames the health emergency for this cull of jobs, and this clearly has a bearing on...

Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

19Jun

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Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem? By: Lalkar According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), 186,000 workers are directly engaged in manufacturing jobs in the British car industry, with 856,000 workers to be found in the wider industry, from sales executives to garage mechanics. It’s an industry worth a whopping £82bn (turnover), but the global crisis of overproduction means that there are many more cars sitting on forecourts than can be sold, and fewer workers with the cash to buy them. World market A staggering number of vehicles for domestic and industrial purposes are now produced on a global scale. Britain sits outside the top ten countries for ...

British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

19Jun

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British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs? Proletarian writers Steeworks plant in Scunthorpe. The following letter was sent to the Morning Star in response to an article about the proposed sale of British Steel to the Turkish army’s pension fund (Oyak). ***** Dear sirs I am writing in reply to your article, British Steel sold for blood money by Steve Sweeney, which was published last Friday, 16 August. Several important omissions struck me while reading what was a very emotively-written piece about the fact that a buyer has been found for what remains of British Steel – a small, privately-owned company bearing little relation to the nationalised industry that formerly operated under the same name. 1. Th...

18Jun

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Campaigns, Politics, United Kingdom

We should never underestimate the emotive importance of statues

By: Shannon Ebrahim We should never underestimate the emotive importance of statues and what they mean in our society. They are a reminder of the people our society considered great, people worthy of respect and looking up to. That is why we put them on pedestals and honour them in central places in our towns and cities, so future generations will pay tribute to them. The problem is that in the US, the UK and South Africa there are numerous statues of men who were the opposite of great - they were the personification of evil. There are statues of men in the southern US who spent their lives fighting to keep African-Americans enslaved. There are statues of men in the UK, like slave trader Edward Colston, who captured more than 100 000 African men, women and children, hoarded t...

UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

16Jun

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Campaigns, United Kingdom

UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

What does the call for a universal basic income really mean? Proletarian writers As the crisis of capitalism deepens, poverty and unemployment are deepening with it, along with the rampant inequalities that are built into the fabric of the system itself. In the absence of a class-conscious, socialist leadership, some workers see their salvation in seductive calls for the state to pay everyone a universal basic income – essentially a more generous and (they hope) less stigmatised dole. Given the proliferation of suggestions as to how this might work, we are happy to publish this letter, sent in by one of our members, by way of a contribution to the debate. We welcome further contributions from our readers and supporters. ***** When the w...

Trump boosts Georgia candidate who peddles anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and posed with a neo-Nazi

14Jun

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Campaigns, USA

Trump boosts Georgia candidate who peddles anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and posed with a neo-Nazi

President Donald Trump waves as he leaves the White House for Florida, Jan. 23, 2020. (Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images) President Donald Trump boosted a Georgia Republican candidate who refuses to disavow a white supremacist she posed with in a photograph and has seemingly promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. “A big winner,” Trump said in a tweet Friday attached to a story on a pro-Trump website noting that Marjorie Taylor Greene in the heavily Republican 14th District had performed well in the primary despite having an ad banned by Facebook. “Congratulations!” Greene, the owner of a construction company, was the leader in Tuesday’s primary but did not secure 50 percent of the vote and so is headed to a runoff against her closest rival, Dr. John Cowan, a neurosu...

12Jun

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Beating Swords to Plowshares

by: KATHY KELLY Photograph Source: Neptuul – CC BY-SA 3.0 Inscribed on a wall across from the United Nations in New York City are ancient words of incalculable yearning: “They will beat their swords into plowsharesand their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will not take up sword against nation,nor will they train for war anymore.” – Isaiah 2:4 I’ve stood with activists in front of that same wall singing Down by the Riverside, a song promising we’ll lay down our swords and shields, -“and study war no more, no more.” In memorably eloquent words spoken after the onset of COVID-19, the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, had this message for the world: “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war. It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown….. ...

Giraldi: bowdlerizing language on behalf of 'Israel'

11Jun

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Campaigns, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Giraldi: bowdlerizing language on behalf of 'Israel'

Words to criticize Israel are fast disappearing … Pressure groups who seek to benefit Israel exclusively have been aided and abetted by the so-called U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to suppress the use of words that cast Israel in a bad light. Most contentious is the elimination of the word “occupation” in State Department reporting to describe the wholesale illegal Israeli seizure of land in Palestine. In the United States there has been a concerted effort to equate any criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism while simultaneously making anti-Semitism a hate crime and thereby converting what one might perceive as exercise of a First Amendment right into a felony… By Philip Giraldi, reposted from The Unz Review Regular visitors to this site will be aware that I freq...

Tell Congress: American taxpayer dollars for Americans! Vote NO on $38 Billion to 'Israel'

11Jun

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Campaigns, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Tell Congress: American taxpayer dollars for Americans! Vote NO on $38 Billion to 'Israel'

The US economy is in shambles. Over 38 million Americans have lost their jobs; 100,000 small businesses have closed permanently, and 7.5 million more are at risk. Nevertheless, Congress is poised to pass a new law – one that would obligate American taxpayers to give Israel at least $10 million per day for the next ten years.The Senate could make its move at any moment; the House has already passed a similar bill. The U.S. has given more money to Israel than to any other country. On average, Israelis receive 7,000 times more aid than other people around the world. In fact, we the taxpayers have given Israel – with a population under 9 million – more aid than we've given to the one billion people living sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the ...